Gadgetory

we're here at CES 2017 and just wrapped up a meeting with ZOTAC who are displaying some pretty interesting products this year but before Iman quick message from our sponsor big thanks to Nvidia gigabyte fantex and NCIX for our CES coverage the one item that really caught our eye was their new GT X 1080 mini which is supposed to be the smallest most compact GT X 1080 on the planet I mean just look at it it is meant to be perfect for smaller ITX cases that won't fit in a traditionally sized GPU but are still capable of accepting a higher-end graphics processor this certainly isn't the first of ZOTAC mini series we have looked at but is certainly the most powerful by a long shot specifications are very close to reference with a base clock of 1620 megahertz and boost going to 1759 megahertz meanwhile the GDR 5x is clocked at 10 gigahertz that's all understandable given the fact that the GTX 1080 mini uses a smaller cooler to keep with its compact size so high out of the box over clocks were impossible ZOTAC did mention that it still does have some good manual overclocking potential provided your system is well cooled enough you can also see that ZOTAC installed two different sized fans on this card 190 millimeter for static pressure while the other one is a hundred millimeters and that is used for additional air movement there are also dual copper heat pipes that ensure an adequate amount of heat movement away from the core so tax pricing for this card wasn't announced but expected to be the same amount as entry-level gtx 280 cards there are three things that are being highlighted by many companies we're visiting this year at CES VR mini pcs like so tax ohncbox and external graphics dogs naturally ZOTAC was showing off one - and it looks pretty interesting even though this is a hand-built sample graphics Doc's are all the rage since USB 3.1 gen2 and Thunderbolt 3 have allowed for high bandwidth high power connections between today's compact notebooks and external devices so tax intent for this doc is for it to be connected to a low-power all-in-one or notebook and provide massive graphics horsepower but will a low voltage notebook CPU be enough to avoid bottlenecking something like a GTX 1080 we'll find out soon after CES but first onto the dock this external dock is meant to communicate with a device via a Thunderbolt 3 connection which it could if a device supports it it's also used to power an external low voltage device speaking of the graphics card though tech isn't going to be including one but it is supposed to support up to 400 watt discreet cards zodiac has also thought ahead by giving their Doc's some additional functionality and incorporating three USB 2.0 ports and one quick charge 3.0 USB port unfortunately pricing and a timeframe for widespread availability wasn't discussed but we'll make sure to keep on top of this while development progress is that graphics card doc may be a perfect fit for some of those tax updated ZBOX which now has its full lineup refreshed with cabling processors that's which also made possibility of an inclusion of Thunderbolt 3 which also adds a lot more functionality and will also allow the connection of additional high-power external devices so that wraps and things that ZOTAC I'm Eva with hurricane axe thank you so much watching and we'll see you in the next CES video